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Cynthia Shanmugalingam shares a taste of Sri Lanka – By Cynthia Shanmugalingam Source : sbs Pieced together from a lifetime of travels, myths and memories, new book Rambutan offers a special perspective on Sri Lanka and its food. My Mum – alongside almost everyone else in my Sri Lankan family – seems to have been born knowing just what fruit, veg, fish, meat, spices and rice to buy, when everything is in season, and how to turn it all into the wonderful Sri Lankan fare that they eat every day. Unlike them, I have had to learn a different way. When my parents left the island in the 1960s to live in England, they didn’t know that on the flight, thousands of years of culinary knowledge would be evaporated into thin air. Alongside my brother and sister, I could never quite pick up everything they knew ‘back home’. And yet, I ...

Nov 8, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , ,
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‘An epic drawn from real life’: the radical hit play about a Sri Lankan family’s journey – By Neelam Tailor Source : theguardian Counting and Cracking, a multilingual tale of a family’s migration to Australia, is coming to the UK. Its writer Shakthi and director Eamon Flack discuss the inspiration behind this labour of love “Australia is a country of immigrants,” says Counting and Cracking director Eamon Flack. He’s not wrong: nearly 60% of the population are immigrants from Europe who began arriving about 250 years ago; Indigenous people make up just over 3%. After England, the top countries where overseas-born immigrants come from are India and China. Yet until Counting and Cracking, there hadn’t been a major theatrical work in Australia about a non-white migrant family. “To put it plainly, I don’t think there’s been a play of this scale with 19 people who are all brown,” says the play’s ...

Aug 29, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Australia releases Sri Lankan family from island detention   Source:-www.dw.com Australia’s conservative government will allow the release of a Tamil asylum-seeking family from the Christmas Island detention center in the Indian Ocean, officials said Tuesday. The Sri Lankan family of four, who were living in the small Queensland town of Biloela before their detention, have been the center of a campaign that sought the shutdown of Australia’s offshore asylum detention camps. Public anger grew recently after the 4-year-old daughter was flown to Perth for medical treatment for a blood infection, and only her mother was allowed to travel with her. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said the family would stay in Perth while they exhaust their legal options, as the government came under backlash over its handling of the case. “In making this determination, I am balancing the government’s ongoing commitment to strong border protection policies with appropriate compassion in circumstances involving children in detention,” Hawke ...

Jul 17, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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